Machine for making buttons.



No. 645,050. Patented Mar. 6, I900. A. GARBEIL.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BUTTONS.

(Application filed Dec; 21, 1899.)

(N0 Mod el.)

INVENTOH I W/TNESSES A TTOHNEY NITED STATES ABRAHAM .GARBEIL, or PHILADELPHIA,

GARBEIL sues, or SAME rLAcn.

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srncrrrcnrron forming part of Letters Patent No. omega-emu igmn 6, 190c ,v Application flied December- 21, 1899. Seriulllo. 741,089. (l lo medal.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that L-ABRAHAM GARBEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city and county of Philadelphia, in the Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and-useful Improvements in Machines for Making Buttons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to.the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

Heretofore in the manufacture of perforated buttons of mother-of-pearl, horn, and similar materialit has been the custom to turn the central recess or depression in the circular disk or blank on a centering-machine and then to transfer such disk or blank to a separate and independent machine for the purpose ofldrilling therein the series of rela- Y tivelyarranged perforations.

The object of my invention is to provide a unitary structure whereby both the centering and the drilling of the disk may be expeditiously effected; and to this end theinvention embodies novel features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter particularly described and claimed.

in thedrawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, partially in section, of my improved machine in its preferred form. Fig. 2 is avertical section, as on the line 2 2 of Fig.1 1.v Fig. 3 is-a similar section, ason the. line 33 of Fig. l,"looking toward the centering and drilling mechanisms. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail of the; vertically-adjustable bracket with which the c'amsa'ctuated sleeve engages. Fig. 4 represents the blank in front and edge elevation.

Fig. 5 is a similar representation of the same as centered. Fig. 6 illustrates the button as completed. i

1 is the bed-p1ate of thefmachine, 2 the headstock, and 3 the spindle in the latter. This spindle is equipped with the usual chuck 4, by which the blank-disk Ais detachably held. It is also furnished with a Wheel or pulley 5, by means'of which the chuck may be rotated. The face of the wheel or pulley is provided with a concentric groove 6, which is inter: r'upted at certain intervals by a series of sockets '7, there being in the present instance four.

Secured to the head-stock is the lower end of lies adjacent to the and includes in its disposed stud 9,which engages with the groove, or channe1'6 and during a spring-pawl 8, the upper or free end of which grooved face of the wheel"- construction a laterally-x I the rotation of the PENNSYLVANIA assienon'ro wheel registers with the sockets in succession,

so as thereby to stop the tervals in its rotation. Usually the wheel is intermittently'rotated by hand, the degree of wheel at regular in-* 7.

the strokes or turns being determined by the cooperation of the 'pawlwith the relativelyarranged sockets.

turning machines. I may remark, however,

that any other suitable mechanism forholda ing and intermittently turning the blank may be employed without afiecting my invention.

10 is the tail-stock, mounted on the bedplate in proper relation to the head-stool; and provided with the spindle 11 in axial aline ment with the chuck-carrying spindle 3. The spindle 11 is slidinglyfitted to its bearings 12, so as to he movable toward and from the work-holding chuck, and lids provided with a pulley 13, around which passes-a driving-belt. Thisspindle is connected. by'a pin-and-slot connection with an arm' 14 on a transverse rock-shaft 15, w baseof thetail-stock,-and isprovided at its forward end with a-handle-arrn 16, by the forcible depression of which the spindlell may be bodily moved toward the work in the chuck. On the. opposite end .of the rock.-

shaft is an arm 17, to which is secured the lower end of a retracting-spring 18, the upper ich has its bearings in the,

The devices thus far dea scribed are those commonly used in butto end of which is fastened to an overhanging lug on the tail-stock, whereby the said rock: shaft is held yieldingly ina positi-onto main tain the spindle 11 normally retracted from the chuck. On the inner end of this spindle is a suitable bit or tool 19, which is designed when the spindle is moved forward to turn acentral socket or recess inthe blank-disk in the chuck.

Mounted in suitable hearings in the stand ards of the tail-stock, in rear of and below the spindle 11 and parallel therewith, is a shaft 20, on which is fixed a pulley 21, around which passes a driving-belt. This'shaft is longitudinally movablein its bearings, being held normally retracted by mean-s of a spring with a beveled project-ion or cam portion 29,

' the upper portion of which is 22, which, encircling the shaft, bears at its end against one of the standards of the tailstock and against the opposing face of the pulley21,respectively. On that portion of the shaft adjacent the tool carrying --en,d. of the spindle 11 is loosely fitted a sleeve 23, from the outer end-of which risesan arm'24,, bifurcated for thereception of a grooved pulley 25, the shaft ing held n proper position by V its shaft.

26 of which is journaled in the limbs of said arm. This pulley is geared by means of' a' belt 27 with a larger pulley 28-,-fast on the end of the shaft 20, wherebythe motion is transmitted from. the latter to the shaft 26, I Ex.- tending centrally f-romAhe outerend of the latter shaft is a boring-bit 27, which is de-" signed to be so set in relation to the buttonblank in the chuck as to drill the perforations .in the blank. I The innerv end of the sleeve is' provided whi'ch'n'ormally registers with. a correspondinglyshapedrecess or cam 30 in the opposing endof a collar 31, loosely mounted on the shaft '20, contiguous to the inner standard of the tail-stock, the normal registry of the camsnrfaces being effected by the action of the retracting-spring 22. Normally the arm carryingthepulley'25 is upright, or substantially so, the sleeve with the interlocking collar bethe action of a spring 32, which is secured to' studs 33 33 onsaid sleeve and on the base of the tail-stock, respectively. Extending forwardly and upwardly from the cam-collar, as it may be termed, is an arm or handle 3 by the forcible depression of which said collar may be partially turned on Affixed to the base of the tail-stock by means of screws 35 is a bracket 36, which extends adjacent to the sleeve. These screws pass through a vertical slot 37 in the bracket, so as to enable the bracket to be vertically ad-. justed as desired. This bracket is provided in its upper portion with a horizontal offset or guideway 38, and the sleeve is provided gether until the stud on with asuitably-located stud 39, which is adapted to coact with said offset or gnideway when the interlocked collar and sleeve are swung forward as a unit, to the end that inthe further forward movement of said collar the coasting cam-surfaces will eflect the longitudinal movement of the sleeve, its connections, and the shaft 20 in opposition to the compression of the spring 22.- When the handle 34 is released, the said parts will be returned to their normal position by the expansion of the spring; The said stud during the 4 rotation ofthe sl'eeve-im'pinges against the vertical edge40 of the bracket, so as to maintain the locking of thesleev'e and collar to- I gages'with the offset or guideway in said-bracket.

The relative positions of the several parts. aresuch that when the'spindle this in its norj mal or retracted positionthere wi-ll be no interference-thereby with the forward movement of the swinging arm 24. and that when said arm" is swung forward the boring-bit 27 on the shaft 26will be slightly eccentric to the axis of the work-holding'chuck. (See dotted lines,.Fig. 3.) The degree of bevaried by adjusting the. bracket '36 vertically, so asto-shift the horizontal abutment for the stud 39 onthe. sleeve, of longitudinal movement of said sleeve and its connections may be regulated by varying the throw of the arm '34-as, for example, by the vertically-adjustable screw stop or abutment 4i inthe base of the taihstock.

' The operation of the machine maybe briefly described as follows The blank-disk A is applied to the chuck in the usual manner, and the handle 16 is then depressed in opposition to the spring-18m move therapidly-revolving centering-tool 19 into operative contact with the blank, thus turning a central recess or depression in the latter. being released, to its normal position by the action of said spring 18. his being done, depressed, thus swinging the arm 2 tforward. As the movement of the handle is continued the arm is moved longitudinally toward the blank through the instru mentality of the devices above pressure on the handle 34: is then slightly're leased, so as to permit the withdrawal of the drill from theblan-k, and thereupon thewheel 5 is turned one step, portion of the blank advanced, as before, the blank. Thus the chuck is turned stepby to the drill, which isthen until the requisite number of holes have been made in the blank. The now complete button is then removed from the chuck andanrepetition of the operation just described.

tion is not limited in its scope to the particular constructions and combinations of parts herein showh and described, as obviously the machine may be greatly altered and modified fair spirit of the inventiom.

I claim- T I 1. In a button-making machine, the c'ombi nation with a blankholder, of mechanism movable axially toward and from said holder for turning a socket or depression in the blank, means for moving said mechanism into and out of operative position in respect to the blank, mechanism movable laterally and axially in respect to the holder for drilling ahole or holes in said blank, and the last-named mechanism into and out of operative position when the first-named mech anism is inactive, substantially as described.

the handle 34 is.

to pierce another holein' step and the drill is advanced and retractedother blank applied thereto preparatory to a I wish it to be understood that my inveneccentricity may 4 and the extent The handle then "rooso as to present another in vmany respects without departing from the means for-moving vided with a turning-tool, means whereby said tool is rendered operative or inoperative in respect to'the blank-holder, as desired, a shaft, a drilLsupport thereon, means for revolving'the drill in saidsupport, and means for moving said support laterally and longir tudinally in respect to the blank-holder, substantially as describedif 3. In a button-making machine, the combination with a blank-ho1der,'ofa spindle in alinement with said holder, provided with a turning-tool, means for icngitadinali'y moving said spindle'and tool toward and from the a tool-holder on said holder, ashaft, a drill-support thereon, means forrevolving the drill in said support, and means for moving said support forward and shifting it longitudinally toward the blankholder, substantially as described.

4. In abutton-making'machine, the combination with a blank-holder, of a shaft, means for driving the same, a sleeve on said shaft provided with an arm, a tool-holder on said arm, gearing between said tool-holder and the shaft, and means for partially turning and longitudinally moving said sleeve, substan- 5. In a button-making machine, the combination with a blank-holder, of a shaft, means for driving 'the same, a sleeve on said shaft provided with a cam-surface andwith an arm, arm, gearing between said tool-holder and'the shaft, a cam on said shaft codperating with the cam-surface on the sleeve, means for turning said cam and sleeve as a unit, a guide device, means ,onthe sleeve for coacting with said device to impart a'longit'udinal movement to said sleeve, substantially as described. a i

6. In a button making machine, the combi-' nation with ablank-holder, of a shaft, means for driving the'same, asleeve on said shaft position, substantially as p In abutton-making machine, the combiprovided with a cam-surface and with an arm,

a tool-holder on said arm, gearing between for coacting with said device to impart a 1ongitudinal movement to said sleeve, and means for returning said sleeve and cam 'to normal described.

nation with a blank-holder, ofashafh'mean for driving the same, a sleeve on said shaft provided with a cam-surface and with an arm, a tool-holder on said arm,- gearing between said tool-holder and the shaft, a cam' on said shaft cooperating with thecam-surface on the sleeve, means for turning said cam and sleeve as 'a unit, a vertically adjustable guidebracket, and means on the sleeve for coacting therewithto imparta longitudinal movement to said sleeve,substantially as described.

8. ha button-making machine, the combination with a blank-holder, of a shaft, means for driving the same, a sleeve on said shaft, provided with a cam-surface andwith an arm, a tool-holder on said arm, gearing between said tool-holder and the shaft, a cam on said shaft codperating with the cam-surface on the sleeve, meansfor turning said cam and sleeve as a unit, and an adjustable stop for limiting the rotary movement of said cam, substam tially as described;

In testimony whereof I have hereunto aflixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ABRAHAM GARBEIL.

Witnesses:

ANDREW V. Gaourn, JOHN R. NOLAN.

Correction in Letters Harem No. 645,050.

It is hereby certified that the name of the assignee in Letters Patent No. 645,050, granted March 6, 1900, upon the application of Abraham Garbeil, of Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania, for an improvement in Machines for Making Buttons, was erroneously written and printed Garbeil Bros, whereas said name should have been written and printed Garbeil Bros. 00.; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the casein the Patent Oflice.

A Signed, counter-signed, and sealed this 13th day of March, A. D., 1900.

[SEAL] THOS. RYAN,

First Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Oountersigned G. H. DUELL,

Commissioner of Patents. 

